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State enrollment below goal

Cougar News Services

Not only is Texas not meeting its goals for college enrollment, a report from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shows, but those goals may not be high enough.

The draft report indicates minority enrollment remains low despite high growth among minority groups, the Austin American-Statesman reported Tuesday.

The state's higher education plan calls for enrolling 1.5 million college students by 2015, but new population projections show that 100,000 more Hispanics should enroll to keep up with population growth.

Overall, 1.2 million students are enrolled in college now.

The goal of 1.6 million students would mean that 5.7 percent of the state's population is attending college in 2015. In 2000, 5 percent of Texans were enrolled, compared with a national average of 5.4 percent, the Statesman reported.

Among Hispanics, only 3.9 percent were attending college in 2003, versus 5.2 percent of blacks and 5.6 percent of whites.

Under the state's enrollment plan overall enrollment would be 5.7 percent of Texans with each ethnic group achieving that rate.
 

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